Several organisations have had to repent for not deploying ethical or white hat hackers to test their internal and external technology infrastructure for vulnerabilities which could be exploited.
India and Singapore on Tuesday elevated their ties to the 'strategic partnership' level and signed bilateral agreements for enhanced defence cooperation and in areas like cyber security, shipping and civil aviation.
The agency has not done an "in- depth" investigation, it said.
In his opening remarks at the G20 Leaders' Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Modi said the 21st century is a time of giving new direction to the world.
The airport security market, which comprises segments like security, disaster response, identification, manning and cyber security is currently growing at a compounded annual growth rate of about 25 per cent, according to a study titled 'India Homeland Security Market: An Emerging Opportunity'.
A new mobile banking 'Trojan' virus -- SOVA -- which can stealthily encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall is targeting Indian customers, the country's federal cyber security agency said in its latest advisory.
The Delhi Police said it has conducted a thorough check of all schools that received the bomb threat but found nothing.
With the economy gaining pace and large deals back on the table, chief executive officers (CEOs) of tech companies believe global tech spending will witness growth this year. According to CEO Survey by Nasscom, about 71 per cent chief executives expect global spend to grow over 4 per cent. The figure is significantly higher than the previous two years - 41 per cent and 59 per cent in 2019 and 2020, respectively. The survey also said the recovery in global tech spending will be led by the digital segment.
The audacity of the virus has been categorised as 'severe' and cyber experts say such a malicious programme has been detected for the first time which asks for a ransom of an estimated Euro or $300 to unlock the genuine files of a user through 'anonymous pre-paid cash vouchers'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Abu Dhabi on July 15.
An author of over 80 books, a lead developer for an e-security product and the president of the Foundation of Information Security and Technology, he has co-chaired efforts by the Mumbai Police and Nasscom to institute cyber security.
Cyber threats continue to haunt internet users across the world.
'The focus needs to shift towards the ability to collect payments, particularly in tier-3 to tier-4 areas where acceptance is still lacking.'
The RBI plans to increase e-smart facility.
The security firm predicted cybercriminals will focus their attacks more on data stored in the cloud versus data stored on the network.
The 557th meeting of the Central Board was chaired by RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, and attended by the four deputy governors among others
Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Tayiba had planned to attack some venues of the just-concluded Commonwealth Games on October 12 and 13, prompting the government to put in place a four-layer security arrangement in the last three days of the sporting extravaganza.
Cyber terror is the new danger that haunts cops, says security analyst B Raman
Police has has also sought information from GitHub platform about the 'Bulli Bai' app developer.
For a little over two weeks, a group called 'Guardians of Peace' released a new bit of leaked information about Sony almost every day.
Senior bankers point out that while they will eventually attract qualified professionals, onboarding them takes time.
The third quarter of the year -- in the months of July, August, September -- the world has witnessed 500,284,715 cyber attacks, according to a report by an Internet security firm.
Global professional services organisation Ernst & Young Services on Thursday said it will hire about 9,000 new workforce in India in 2021, in various technology roles across all member firms. These hires will be from the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) background and in areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning, cyber security, analytics and other emerging technologies, EY said in a statement.
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India saw a huge surge in ransomware and IoT cyber attacks in the first half of 2023, as criminals shifted to stealthier means of malicious activities, according to a report by SonicWall. While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 per cent) and Germany (52 per cent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, including cryptojacking (399 per cent), IoT malware (37 per cent) and encrypted threats (22 per cent), the report said.
India's second largest IT services company Infosys on Wednesday said its consolidated net profit grew by 11.9 per cent to Rs 5,421 crore for the September 2021 quarter. Infosys had clocked a net profit of Rs 4,845 crore in the same period last fiscal, according to a regulatory filing. The Bengaluru-based company saw its revenues rising by 20.5 per cent to Rs 29,602 crore in the quarter under review (Q2FY22) from Rs 24,570 crore in the year-ago period.
The media report claiming India bought Pegasus spyware as part of a $2 billion defence deal with Israel in 2017 has triggered a major controversy with the Opposition alleging that the government indulged in illegal snooping that amounted to 'treason'.
According to security experts at Symantec, web users generally get lured by cyber criminals to download and install fake anti-virus software on to their machines, believing they're protecting their PCs from hackers.
Globally, targeted attacks were up 91 per cent in 2013 and lasted an average of three times longer compared to 2012.
Symantec Corp, a global data security provider, has said that cyber attacks against critical infrastructure providers in India were becoming more frequent and effective in the recent past.
Symantec report says India saw 6% of social media scams globally in 2014
'Due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, a faction operating in the Red Sea -- which is a typically safe area - has been firing projectiles arbitrarily.' 'Additionally, there have been two incidents involving Somali pirates, and one vessel has been hijacked.'
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighbourhood, a People's Liberation Army base has been built for China's growing corps of cyber warriors.
Bharti Airtel delivered encouraging results for the January-March quarter of the 2022-23 financial year (Q4FY23) as telecom and associated services moved into the 5G zone. In India, Airtel's mobile Q4 revenue and Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) were Rs 19,550 crore (up 1 per cent quarter-on-quarter or QoQ) and Rs 10,530 crore (up 1.1 per cent QoQ), respectively. The Ebitda margin was flat at 52.2 per cent.
Bollywood stars Tabu, Taapsee Pannu, Anushka Sharma and Sonakshi Sinha are among the top 10 personalities generating the riskiest search results online in India owing to the malicious sites and viruses linked to their names, according to a list released by a cybersecurity company on Tuesday.
Cyber-space has become another tool in the hands of terrorists who post 'motivated rumours' in social networking sites thereby creating a new challenge to the security forces in the country, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said in New Delhi on Thursday.
Japan also reported that five of those missiles landed in its exclusive economic zone, understandably causing grave concern.
In a security breach, ISIS militants have reportedly hacked tens of thousands of Twitter accounts.
The virus of the deadly 'Trojan' family, once activated, could change the command and control server of a user's personal Android phone and intercept private SMSes coming in or going out.
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